You all NEED these Obsidian community plugins ![rw-book-cover](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Yzi1o-BH6QQ/maxresdefault.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[YouTube]] - Full Title: You all NEED these Obsidian community plugins - Category: #articles - Document Note: --- tags: [obsidian, community-plugins, note-taking, productivity] author: Christian Lempa source: YouTube reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzi1o-BH6QQ date created: 2024-12-19 10:30 --- # 🏷️ Title: You all NEED these Obsidian community plugins ## 🧰 Action Inbox - [H1] Install Icon Folder plugin for visual navigation — improves file explorer usability at 02:25 #obsidian - [H2] Set up Commander macros for workflow automation — combines multiple commands at 06:45 #productivity - [H3] Configure DataView for project tracking — creates dynamic tables at 12:30 #project-management ## 🧭 Table of Contents - [📝 Summary](#-summary) - [📖 Main Content](#-main-content) - [🗒️ Notes](#️-notes) - [📚 References](#-references) - [🗣️ Paraphrase](#️-paraphrase) - [📰 Newsletter](#-newsletter) - [✅ Action Items](#-action-items) - [🧪 Hypotheses](#-hypotheses) - [📊 Methodology](#-methodology) - [❓ Questions](#-questions) - [🔮 Future Research](#-future-research) - [💡 Implications](#-implications) - [🧠 Learning Styles Assessment](#-learning-styles-assessment) - [📊 Accessibility Assessment](#-accessibility-assessment) - [🌍 DEIB Assessment](#-deib-assessment) - [✅ Logical Validity](#-logical-validity) - [🛡️ DARVO Analysis](#-darvo-analysis) - [🎯 Conclusion](#-conclusion) ### 🔗 References - [Obsidian Community Plugins](https://obsidian.md/plugins) - [Nicole Vanderhoven YouTube Channel](https://youtube.com/@nicolevdh) ## 📝 Summary - Christian Lempa demonstrates 7 powerful Obsidian community plugins that transform the note-taking app into a comprehensive project management and visualization tool - Key plugins include Icon Folder, Commander, Quick Add, Advanced Tables, DataView, Projects, and ExcaliDraw - These plugins enable custom workflows, dynamic databases, kanban boards, and hand-drawn style diagrams - The combination creates a highly personalized productivity system while maintaining plain markdown file portability - Requires initial time investment but offers superior customization compared to plug-and-play alternatives ## 📖 Main Content This comprehensive overview showcases how Obsidian's community plugin ecosystem transforms a simple markdown editor into a powerful productivity suite. The plugins work synergistically - Icon Folder provides visual organization, Commander automates workflows, Quick Add streamlines content creation, and DataView creates database-like functionality from plain text metadata. The Projects plugin builds on DataView to offer kanban boards and calendar views, while ExcaliDraw enables integrated diagram creation. This approach maintains data portability through markdown files while providing enterprise-level project management capabilities. ## 🗒️ Notes #### ⏱️ [00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzi1o-BH6QQ?t=0) — [H1] Introduction to Obsidian's Potential - Key idea: Obsidian can become more than a markdown editor with community plugins - Evidence: "You can make this a powerful visualizing tool, a project management solution, a kanban board" #### ⏱️ [02:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzi1o-BH6QQ?t=145) — [H2] Icon Folder Plugin for Visual Navigation - Key idea: Customizes file explorer appearance with recognizable icons - Evidence: "It really helps me to quickly find everything that I want" #### ⏱️ [03:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzi1o-BH6QQ?t=225) — [H3] Icon Folder Sync Considerations - Key idea: Icon packs can slow synchronization across devices - Evidence: "Every icon is a separate PNG file and synchronization can take a pretty long time" #### ⏱️ [04:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzi1o-BH6QQ?t=270) — [H2] Commander Plugin for Custom UI - Key idea: Adds custom command buttons anywhere in the interface - Evidence: "You can add any commands in obsidian as a separate button somewhere in the UI" #### ⏱️ [06:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzi1o-BH6QQ?t=405) — [H1] Commander Macros and Automation - Key idea: Creates powerful macros combining multiple commands - Evidence: "You can even create macros that will execute multiple commands at once" #### ⏱️ [07:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzi1o-BH6QQ?t=435) — [H2] Quick Add Plugin for Template Creation - Key idea: Rapidly creates new notes with predefined templates - Evidence: "I've created a quick add function that will start a new video project for me" #### ⏱️ [10:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzi1o-BH6QQ?t=630) — [H1] Commander and Quick Add Integration - Key idea: Combining plugins creates one-click workflow automation - Evidence: "All with just one simple click... the sky is the limit" #### ⏱️ [11:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzi1o-BH6QQ?t=705) — [H2] Advanced Tables Plugin Benefits - Key idea: Simplifies markdown table editing and manipulation - Evidence: "You can use it to move rows and columns around or add new entries" #### ⏱️ [12:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzi1o-BH6QQ?t=750) — [H1] DataView Plugin Database Functionality - Key idea: Creates dynamic queries from metadata in markdown files - Evidence: "You can see it a bit like a database but without having a backend" #### ⏱️ [14:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzi1o-BH6QQ?t=855) — [H2] DataView Query Language - Key idea: Uses SQL-like syntax to generate dynamic tables - Evidence: "You can use the data view query language that's pretty similar to SQL statements" #### ⏱️ [17:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzi1o-BH6QQ?t=1020) — [H1] Projects Plugin for Project Management - Key idea: Builds on DataView to create comprehensive project views - Evidence: "Turns into a fully fleshed project management solution" #### ⏱️ [18:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzi1o-BH6QQ?t=1110) — [H2] Multiple View Types in Projects - Key idea: Displays project data in kanban, calendar, table, and gallery formats - Evidence: "Includes things like a table, a calendar, a kanban board or a gallery" #### ⏱️ [19:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzi1o-BH6QQ?t=1185) — [H3] Learning Curve Consideration - Key idea: Powerful features require initial time investment - Evidence: "It requires a bit of time to learn... not as simple as other tools" #### ⏱️ [21:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzi1o-BH6QQ?t=1260) — [H2] ExcaliDraw for Visualization - Key idea: Creates hand-drawn style diagrams directly in Obsidian - Evidence: "I'm much faster with ExcaliDraw because all these things are separate objects" #### ⏱️ [22:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzi1o-BH6QQ?t=1350) — [H1] Markdown File Portability Advantage - Key idea: All customization remains in exportable plain text format - Evidence: "It's all just plain markdown text files so you can easily export and backup" ## 📚 References - [Obsidian Official Website](https://obsidian.md/) - [DataView Plugin Documentation](https://blacksmithgu.github.io/obsidian-dataview/) - [ExcaliDraw](https://excalidraw.com/) - [Nicole Vanderhoven's Obsidian Tutorials](https://youtube.com/@nicolevdh) ## 🗣️ Paraphrase - Obsidian's community plugins transform it from a basic markdown editor into a comprehensive productivity platform with visual customization, workflow automation, and database capabilities - The plugin ecosystem allows users to create highly personalized workflows while maintaining the core advantage of portable markdown files - Seven essential plugins (Icon Folder, Commander, Quick Add, Advanced Tables, DataView, Projects, ExcaliDraw) work together to provide enterprise-level project management features ## 📰 Newsletter Discover how to supercharge your note-taking workflow with Obsidian community plugins! Christian Lempa demonstrates seven game-changing extensions that transform the popular markdown editor into a complete project management suite. From visual file organization to dynamic database queries, these plugins create powerful workflows while keeping your data in portable markdown format. Key highlights include the DataView plugin's SQL-like querying capabilities and the Projects plugin's kanban board functionality. Perfect for content creators, developers, and knowledge workers seeking customizable productivity solutions. Resources: [Obsidian Community Plugins](https://obsidian.md/plugins), [DataView Documentation](https://blacksmithgu.github.io/obsidian-dataview/), [Nicole Vanderhoven's Channel](https://youtube.com/@nicolevdh) ## ✅ Action Items #### Community - Plugin ecosystem: support maintainer sustainability, contribution guidelines - Knowledge sharing: tutorial creation, use case documentation - User onboarding: simplified setup guides, template libraries #### WordPress - Documentation: plugin comparison matrix, workflow examples - Community: knowledge base integration, user forum discussions - Training: advanced productivity workshops, certification paths ## 🧪 Hypotheses - Community plugin ecosystems increase user retention by enabling customization beyond core features - Visual interface improvements (like Icon Folder) significantly enhance navigation efficiency in complex file structures - Combining automation plugins (Commander + Quick Add) reduces repetitive task completion time by 60% - SQL-like query interfaces make non-technical users more comfortable with database concepts ### 📊 Methodology - A/B testing navigation speed with and without visual icons - Time-motion studies of workflow automation impact - User surveys on learning curve vs. customization satisfaction - Retention analysis of plugin adopters vs. core users ### ❓ Questions - How do plugin maintenance challenges affect long-term user workflow stability? - What's the optimal balance between plugin complexity and usability for mainstream adoption? - Can DataView's approach to metadata querying be applied to other content management systems? ### 🔮 Future Research - Plugin ecosystem sustainability models and maintainer incentives - Cross-platform workflow portability in markdown-based systems - Integration patterns between complementary productivity plugins ### 💡 Implications - Practice: Demonstrates how extensible architectures enable user-driven innovation beyond original scope - Policy: Community plugin governance requires balance between openness and quality assurance - Education: Complex plugin combinations need structured learning paths for effective adoption - Funding: Successful community ecosystems may need financial support mechanisms for key maintainers ### 🧠 Learning Styles Assessment Reading level estimate: 10th Grade (Flesch-Kincaid) #### 👀 Visual learners - Present: Screenshots of plugin interfaces, before/after comparisons - Improve: Animated GIFs showing plugin interactions, workflow diagrams #### 🔊 Aural learners - Present: Video demonstration with clear narration - Improve: Podcast-style audio summary, step-by-step voice guides #### 🗣️ Verbal learners - Present: Clear explanations, analogies to databases and project tools - Improve: Glossary of technical terms, comparison frameworks #### 🧩 Kinesthetic learners - Present: Step-by-step setup demonstrations, hands-on examples - Improve: Practice exercises, downloadable template vaults #### 🧠 Logical learners - Present: Plugin integration flowcharts, systematic feature comparisons - Improve: Decision trees for plugin selection, capability matrices #### 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Social learners - Present: Community Discord mentions, collaborative use cases - Improve: Peer learning groups, shared workflow showcases #### 🧘‍♀️ Solitary learners - Present: Self-paced video format, independent experimentation encouraged - Improve: Self-assessment checklists, personal reflection prompts #### 🌿 Naturalistic learners - Present: Organic workflow evolution examples - Improve: Ecosystem thinking about plugin relationships ### 📊 Accessibility Assessment #### Screen reader semantics - Present: Video has clear verbal descriptions of UI elements - Improve: Detailed alt text for plugin interface screenshots, ARIA landmarks #### Keyboard navigation - Present: Demonstrates keyboard shortcuts within Obsidian - Improve: Comprehensive keyboard-only plugin setup guide #### Contrast and readability - Present: High contrast in most plugin interface examples - Improve: Verify all UI elements meet WCAG AA standards #### Text resizing and reflow - Present: Most plugin interfaces responsive to zoom - Improve: Test all recommended plugins at 200% zoom #### Media and captions - Present: Video includes spoken content - Improve: Add accurate closed captions, transcript with timestamps #### Forms and interactions - Present: Plugin setup forms shown clearly - Improve: Ensure all form elements have proper labels ### 🌍 DEIB Assessment #### Cultural breadth - Present: Content in English, international plugin community mentioned - Improve: Multilingual plugin examples, global workflow adaptations #### Inclusive language - Present: Gender-neutral technical language throughout - Improve: Plain language alternatives for complex technical terms #### Neurodiversity support - Present: Clear section breaks, consistent information structure - Improve: Sensory considerations for visual plugins, processing time notes #### Representation - Present: Focus on technical functionality over personal characteristics - Improve: Diverse use case examples beyond content creation #### Psychological safety - Present: Encouraging tone about learning curve challenges - Improve: Explicit acknowledgment of different technical skill levels ### ✅ Logical Validity #### Strong reasoning - Deductive strength: Plugin combination benefits logically follow from individual features - Inductive strength: Examples support broader claims about productivity improvements - Causal reasoning: Clear cause-effect between plugin adoption and workflow enhancement - Analogical strength: Database comparison helps explain DataView functionality #### Fallacies - Appeal to popularity: "Everyone who is still using other productivity tools will give obsidian a try" - overstated claim - Hasty generalization: Single user's workflow may not apply universally #### Tone of voice - Overall tone: Enthusiastic and encouraging with appropriate technical cautions about maintenance ### 🛡️ DARVO Analysis - Deny: No denial patterns present - Attack: No attacks on competing tools or users - Reverse victim/offender: No victimization narratives - Emotional cues and rhetoric: Positive enthusiasm without manipulation ## 🎯 Conclusion Obsidian's community plugin ecosystem demonstrates how extensible architectures enable users to create highly personalized productivity systems. While requiring initial learning investment, the combination of visual customization, workflow automation, and database functionality creates enterprise-level capabilities while maintaining data portability through markdown files. The key insight is that successful plugin ecosystems balance power with usability, though long-term sustainability of community-maintained extensions remains a consideration for workflow-dependent users. ## 🧱 Refactor Appendix ### 📚 Literature Split Pad Purpose: Stage CEE units that become Literature notes. Split level: H3 ### [H1] Community plugins transform basic editors into comprehensive productivity suites > [!quote] [You all NEED these Obsidian community plugins](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzi1o-BH6QQ) by [[Christian Lempa]] via [[YouTube]]. Published 2024. Accessed 2024-12-19. > "You can make this a powerful visualizing tool, a project management solution, a kanban board." Demonstrates extensible architecture enabling user-driven innovation beyond original scope. [view highlight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzi1o-BH6QQ#H1) #xref #articleseed ID: - Document Tags: [[h1]] [[xref]] [[project]] [[obsidian]] [[productivity]] - Summary: You all NEED these Obsidian community plugins - URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzi1o-BH6QQ In this video, we are talking about Obsidian, which has always been my absolute favorite markdown editor. Some of you might remember my first video about it and that I'm using it for my note-taking and writing technical documentation. However, I actually discovered that Obsidian can do so much more with the right community plugins. You can make this a powerful visualizing tool, a project management solution, a Kanban board, create dynamic tables, and simplify your entire workflow with macros and custom commands. It's just insane what you can all do with it. I'm going to show you seven incredible community plugins for Obsidian and how I'm using them. I'm pretty sure by the end of this video, everyone who is still using other productivity tools will at least give Obsidian a try. And for the longtime fans, I might have the one or other interesting point about my projects and workflows. So let's start and talk about the best Obsidian community plugins. This video is supported by Teleport, a free and open-source access proxy that helps you securely authenticate to all your IT infrastructure, like Linux. Servers, databases, Kubernetes clusters, web applications, or remote desktop — you can easily protect your accounts with modern security features such as two-factor authentication or a password that's logged in, and access your services through the browser or the CLI tool with audit logging and session recording. And the best part? It's completely free in the community version, so you can just download and run it in your entire home lab. Or, if you would like to use it in your company, Teleport offers many professional features like auditing, single sign-on, and more. It's a great tool, so just check it out. You will find a link to their website in the description of this video. Okay, so to get started with plugins in Obsidian, you need to open the settings menu. Here, you will find all the important stuff under Community Plugins. First, turn off the restricted mode, and then you can just click on "Browse" to scroll through all the existing projects, get some more information about them, and of course, you can also search for specific ones to make it easy for you. I'll put the names of all the plugins I'm showing you here in the description of this video. You can easily find and install them when you're using plugins in Obsidian. Always remember that these plugins are all made by the community, and they are not part of the official Obsidian code; hence, they can have bugs from time to time. What you should also keep in mind is that every community plugin, even if it is frequently updated at this time, it might not be maintained forever, because mostly, these are small projects made by one or a few people. So just be a little cautious using them. A good indicator to find active and maintained plugins is always to check when was the last time this plugin was updated, how many downloads it has, and also you should take a look at the project on GitHub. Sometimes the creators put some details in the about section about their effort, but that's not always the case for sure. That being said, let's now jump right into it and start with the first plugin that I want to show you, and this is called Icon Folder, which is not a really spectacular plugin, you would say, but it is absolutely one of my favorites, because with Icon Folder you can give the boring file explorer in Obsidian a more customized look by adding icons to When you have installed the plugin, you can just right-click on a folder or on a node and then click on Change Icon. Then you can select whatever icon you want. It's pretty simple. I really like this because I am using the file explorer a lot to navigate through my nodes in Obsidian. Maybe more than I should, but it really helps me quickly find everything that I want. As you can see, I've built myself this folder hierarchy where I sort all of my Markdown files — everything I need for my projects, my notes, my Git repos, the work stuff, and YouTube videos as well. Every folder has a recognizable icon, so this helps to quickly jump into the right section. I also think it looks pretty neat. In the plugin settings menu, you can also customize the look and feel of it, like adding different icon packs into your Obsidian Vault or changing colors and adjusting the icon size, and so on. One thing that I should probably mention here is that when you install these icon packs into your Obsidian Vault, they are stored in a DOT folder underneath your regular file structure. If you don't pay attention to it and you include it in the vault itself, it can It can get a bit laggy when you're trying to synchronize it because every icon is a separate PNG file in that folder. I have had this iteration once that when I'm using OneDrive or git repos, for example, desynchronization processes can take a pretty long time, which is really annoying when you want to access your Vault across mobile phones. On my iPad and iPhone, it works pretty well with iCloud. However, if you have an icon pack containing thousands of icons, it might take some time doing the initial sync. If you're just working on your PC or Mac and you don't synchronize the Vault, it shouldn't be an issue. But, yeah, that is something you should definitely keep in mind. But apart from this icon folder, it is just a great plugin that gives your Obsidian Vault a nicer and more custom look. Next, I want to show you another customization plugin, which is called Commander. With that, you can add any commands in Obsidian as a separate button somewhere in the UI. You can put these into different places, like in the ribbon menu, the top bar, the status bar, and so on. You can create all sorts of these commands. You can give it a Your own styled menus, as you can see in the ribbon menu of Obsidian, for example. I've hidden all the boring default buttons of Obsidian and created my own custom list of ribbon commands with a more stylish look. What's also really cool is that you can even create macros with this plugin that will execute multiple commands at once, even on startup of the program and with a delay. To be honest, I haven't really figured out how to integrate these macros into my workflow yet. I'm still experimenting with that, but what's really nice about Commander is that this doesn't just work with the irregular commands you have in Obsidian; it can also be used with any other command that your plugins will add to Obsidian. So anything that you can type in the Obsidian CLI can be added as part of a macro or as a separate button, and that makes Commander, in my opinion, very powerful because you can really make the most out of any other community plugin with automating it in a Commander button. So I'm going to show you that in a combination with the next plugin, and this is called Quick Add. With Quick Add, you can, just as the name suggests, quickly add new nodes into your vault. To be fair, it can also do a couple of other things which I haven't really figured out yet because I'm only using this for adding new notes with templates to specific folders. That's, in my opinion, the most useful feature. For example, I've created a quick add function that will start a new video project for me. So whether I execute this quick add, it automatically creates a new markdown file in the YouTube video folder with a specific template that I can directly start working with. But let's build a new quick add together so I can show you a couple of things. I'm going to add a new quick add template in here that is called test node. So this should create a new markdown file with a specific template somewhere. And to specify these settings, we need to click on that small gear icon. Here we can now select the template that we want this node to be created with. For example, let's just add the template that I'm using for creating my YouTube video documentation. Now you can also define if you want this node to be created with a specific file name and a format, maybe with the current date. But I don't want to do that now because I like to always enter a new file name. When I'm executing this quick ad, I will just leave this empty. Instead, I liked this node to be created inside a specific folder, so I'm going to pick the testing folder in here. That's easier for a quick demonstration. But of course, you can use this to create notes in any other folder in your Vault. It's also directly open this file, maybe in a vertical split, so we can start working on this project right away. Okay, so far so good. Now we have our quick add function, and when we now go back to our main editing view, we can just execute it by typing in the command, "Run Quick Add" and then just select the test node one that we have just created. You can see this opens a prompt to enter a file name, just like we wanted. When we just enter it, you find them in here and execute it, you can see this created our new file in our testing folder, and also with the desired template. So that's already pretty useful to speed up your entire workflow in Obsidian. But wait, it gets even a bit better because, like I said, you can also use these quick add home commands in combination with commands. To do that, you just need to click on this small lightning icon here. To make this quick add a separate command in Obsidian. What's really cool now is that we can create a new button in Commander for this specific quick add command. I just need to open the Commander settings, and let's create a new button in the Explorer window. For example, they just type in the quick add command that was created for the test note. Give it a useful name for the command button and a cool icon, of course. Maybe something like this video. I can so that should be nice. And after that, let's also select a nice color, maybe a red for a YouTube view or something. So here we have our new button right in the file explorer, and when I click on it, it just executes the quick add function: test note that we have defined. So we need to give our new file a name, and yeah, you can see it works just like before. It adds a new file in our testing folder and opens it directly in a new vertical split, all with just one simple click. So this is absolutely amazing. And remember, this is just a very basic example of how quick adds and Commander works together. You can, of course, also use these two plugins in many other ways. Yeah, combine different actions and macros in one single command. Or, button that you frequently use to create predefined types of files with specific links or templates. The sky is the limit, and you can really use that to build any sorts of workflows that fit into your process, so that will really make your life in Obsidian a lot easier. Now, like I said, that's enhancing my productivity a lot, especially when I'm working on my new video projects where I quickly want to create a new markdown file to write down something or edit a script, and so on. Don't worry, we will go through more of these useful plugins. The next one is Advanced Table, which you might already remember from my first Obsidian video, but it shouldn't be missed in this list. This plugin enables a new button in the right sidebar that you can use whenever you are editing a markdown table. Now, markdown tables are kind of difficult to handle, yeah, just like this one. When you are editing it, you can see it automatically switches to this markdown editing mode, and when you would want to change something in this table, you would always need to mess around with this markdown formatting, copying and pasting values between the separators. It's just horrible to do it. Manually, Advanced Tables helps you a bit with this; you can use it to move rows and columns around or add new entries in between other items. That's very useful when you want to add a column inside a big table, for example. Remember when you would need to do that manually? You would have to add this new column to every single row of the table. That's what Advanced Tables does automatically for you, so you just need to jump right into the rows and fill in the data. You can even use it to automatically sort rows in a table, so it's a small plugin that's helping a lot with markdown tables. However, the markdown tables are still pretty static in Obsidian; that's why I'm using a different plugin to create sorts of dynamic objects and tables. This is really one of the most incredible plugins for Obsidian, which might even change your entire view on this program, and it is called Data View. Data View is used by adding so-called metadata to your notes. One way to do that is to simply put it in between three dash characters at the beginning of the note, like I've done in this example. This basically is just a list of key Value pairs where you can define relevant information about this node, and what's special about this metadata is that it is indexed and can be queried by the data view plugin. In other nodes, it is extremely powerful. You can see it as a bit like a database but without having a back end or a database file somewhere that you would need to connect to. It's all stored and indexed from the metadata, which is just plain text in your marked on files. Just a quick example, because it's really difficult to explain otherwise. So here we have a note containing the write-up for one of my YouTube video projects. Yeah, and this first section here is the metadata section where I've added a couple of fields containing relevant information for this project. For instance, I've added a status, a thumbnail, an SEO score, a published date, a sponsor, a title, and so on. Just like this, I have created similar notes for all the other videos that I'm working on. Basically, you can add any relevant metadata to any of your markdown files in the vault. You can just put text fields in here; you can put dates in here. There are many other types of key-value pairs that you can create. And once you have done that, you can use data view in another node to query your entire world and create a list or a table of these notes. For example, let's create a table with all the published YouTube videos that I've made and documented in my Vault with this metadata. To do that, I'll just need to start a new code block just like you would define some YAML or shell script in here, and you would just need to add the data view language to this block. Then you can use the data view query language that's pretty similar to SQL statements, so this will be very familiar to all the database pros here. We will start first with the type of the object that we want to create. This will be a table, and now we can display different fields of the metadata. For example, let's display the video title, the SEO score, the publish date, and this status. Next, I also want to select which type of notes this list should contain, because if you have many different nodes in your Vault with all sorts of different metadata, you can filter it a bit based on the folder location or based on text. To do that, you just need to add a from statement. To select the YouTube videos folder and because this would display all the YouTube videos, I want to further filter it based on the metadata section. For instance, let's only display the nodes that have a status set to "Archive." This is what I enter in the metadata section of all my published videos. For example, and we should maybe also sort this table by date, so I think that makes the most sense. If we now go out of this code block, you can see Data View generates a dynamic table with all the notes in my YouTube videos folder that match our query. I'm still speechless how powerful this is. There you can see this table contains all the archived projects. I can hover over the individual items, and I can even click on it to go directly into the selected node. Of course, you can do so much more with it. I can't cover it here in this short video. Yeah, but if you want to have a more detailed tutorial about Data View, I can just recommend the YouTube channel Nicole Vanderhoven. Hope I pronounced this correctly; I'm sorry if not, but she's doing so many great videos about Obsidian, like detailed videos about Data View and also some other cool Obsidian plugins. So just go to her Channel subscribe and leave a comment that I've sent you there. There's really some good stuff on it; of course, you will find a link to her channel in the description down below. What you might also do is just check out the official documentation page of Data View. There you will also find great write-ups with technical documentation about the different data types, the Data View query language, and syntax. I bet while watching this, you already have one or two ideas in your mind about how you could use that in your day-to-day work in Obsidian. For example, you could build a home dashboard in Obsidian where you display all the tasks of your entire world in a single list or track all your projects across different folders and tags, filtering it based on the status or what needs to be done in a few days. You can use this in so many different ways. So I'm pretty sure you're all hooked now. However, the next community plugin even takes Data View to the next level. Because some of you might ask, "How can you use this metadata to manage even more complex projects?" Yeah, and keep a better track of your items, maybe in a Kanban board or in a calendar view. There is another amazing plugin existing exactly for this which is called Project, and this turns into a fully fleshed project management solution which uses metadata to display and filter your nodes in different ways, so it seamlessly integrates with all the stuff that you're already doing with Dataview. For example, I'm using this project plugin to plan and document all of my YouTube videos. So here in the main project view, you can create and manage all your different projects. These can be created based on notes that are located in a specific folder or have a specific text. You can even filter it based on a Dataview query. That is really amazing, and then when you have defined your projects, you can create views to display the nodes in your projects in many different ways. So this includes things like a table, a calendar, a Kanban board, or a gallery. You can create as many views as you want. Yeah, create different filters and specify different fields that should be visible. It's really great to organize and manage your home lab projects or if you are a content creator like me, manage Your YouTube videos, yeah, basically, whatever you want. Always Remember, this is still based on metadata that you have added to all your nodes. You can really combine these two plugins in a cool way, but of course it will require some time to figure out how to use data view, the project plugin, and how to build the metadata to really establish a productivity workflow. To be honest, this is probably the only hurdle of Obsidian and these community plugins. There, you can do amazing things with it, but it requires a bit of time to learn how they work. It's probably not as simple as other tools that are more plug and play. However, if you're willing to invest some time into these things, I believe you can build yourself a much more customized and much more personalized experience. And what I still love the most in Obsidian, in general, is that, in the end, it's all just plain markdown text files. So you can easily export and backup your entire world: all your projects, all the notes, and the attributes without being afraid of losing these logical connectivities between the notes. Anyway, this is how I built my own content creation and Management system with Obsidian. I'm using it to plan my projects, to write all the documentation, organize all the stuff. Honestly, this was probably the most useful plugin for me. However, there's still one more that I need to show you quickly to finish this list, which is called Excalidraw. You might have already seen it in other videos from me, where I've shown you some visualizations or diagrams because that's what I'm using to create these hand-draw style whiteboards. It's actually not only a plug-in; yeah, you could also use Excalidraw outside of Obsidian. There's also a paid version with some additional collaboration features for teams, but this is such a great visualization tool that is natively integrated in your Obsidian world, so you can link these Excalidraw files to other nodes. This really changed my entire process of creating visualizations. Here, before I was always using my iPad with the Apple Pencil to draw some visualizations myself, but I actually found out that I'm much, much faster with just using Excalidraw because even when this looks like a quick handwritten document or Visualization of all of these things in here are separate objects, so that means you can easily change and move them around. With that, you can create some beautiful whiteboards with a handwritten style that just looks nice, and you can create buttons with it. You can use arrows, lines, images; I'm sure I don't need to walk you through Excalibur because it's all very intuitive and self-explanatory. If you have any questions or you just want to hang out and talk about Obsidian, I can recommend the official Obsidian Discord; cool people there. If you have any other ideas for Obsidian plugins that I haven't mentioned yet, please put it in the comments down below. I think I've covered all the plugins that are most important to me. Sure, there's much more we could talk about, but I think that's enough for today. So maybe in the future, I'll make a second round of new Obsidian community plugins that I've discovered, only when it makes sense, of course. Anyway, make sure to like and subscribe if you're up for more tech and home lab content. And as always, thanks everybody for watching; I will catch you in the next video. Take care, bye bye. [Music], You all NEED these Obsidian community plugins, YouTube, 01ka8gq3cdyyyjq6b87rerkyme.